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...Controllers Organization, the biggest and by far the most aggressive of five unions representing factions of the nation's 16,000 civil service controllers. Ostensibly, PATCO members left their radarscopes last week to emphasize claims that their facilities are understaffed and that the controllers themselves are overworked and underpaid (though some of them gross $21,000 a year). One key factor nobody thought to mention was ambition-Bailey...
...dilemma is a complex one. While postal workers?and many other public employees?are undeniably underpaid, government's first obligation is to protect the economy and maintain essential public services. The right to strike is an important weapon in labor's arsenal. But strikes against government?whether local, state or federal?not only endanger society but also weaken popular confidence in government and ultimately degrade the government itself...
...illuminated the huge main room of the pewless church as groups gathered at long tables set up around the room's edge. Much of the talk concerned the night school set up by Harvard for its workers- called by many present a "valueless program" which only prevented the allegedly underpaid workers from taking on second jobs...
...regard to the letter from Beth Harvey which appeared in the Sept, 27 CRIMSON I would like to comment on just one point. Before making the condescending suggestion in her letter that the secretaries at the Center for International Affairs are underpaid and have "bad working conditions" I feel that she should have asked the individuals concerned for their views. For my own part I Ifeel that I have very agreeable working conditions and my salary compares reasonably with that obtainable elsewhere for the same kind of work...
With the German economy still surging, officers and men feel underpaid. A full colonel earns about as much as a ski instructor; a master sergeant's pay about equals that of a cab driver. Moreover, a uniform provides no compensating psychic income to its wearer today. Determined not to repeat the mistakes of previous regimes that allowed the German army to become a state within the state, Bonn may have downgraded the postwar armed forces too far-the defense share of the federal budget has dropped from 28% in 1965 to 22.6% this year. Few soldiers wear their uniforms...